Hi to all and especially to Eric Roode,
I want to encourage Eric to go over and collect all informations about
and how to use wxPerl.
I started some years ago and it took me a long time to get into it and
I would have been glad to have a nice and clean docu - still today!
About my experiences and opinion pro documentation:
- Like with all documentation it is sometimes hard to read the
original WX docu and transform it into propper wx Perl code.
- Not all C functions are availaber or working - and this makes it
sometimes harder
- Also there is differences in using wxPerl on Mac/Linux/windows (I do
and I notice them sometimes), which shoudl be collected
- Especially packaging a complete application can become a time
intenisve task for different plattforms - where a deep documentation
is missing at all
I have tried TK, some system properitary GUI stuff and finally end up
with wxPerl.
And I like it, fast easy and more or less plattform compatible (not
independent).
My break through in using wxPerl came, as I got the great tip to use
XRC files for describing UI togehter with Dialog-Blogs or some other
IDE.
The split of UI Design and codebase this is the most flexibel and
simple solution. You can quickly test different UIs without touching
the logick code . . .
Why Perl and WxPerl?
Because wxPerl and Perl is reliable, stable, fast, easy, flexible (OO
and Procedural is possible), exentibel, plattform compatibel
(also, Solaris, AIX, IBM Unix, Symbian and many more OS are supported)
and there is a great bunch of extensions. There is simply much
background . . .
After coding perl for 10 years I still use it for 90 percent of my
work. I build my commandlinetools, applications, web based sytsems and
Enterprise production/control systems all with perl. One for all!
The question phyton or perl is maybe more a philosophie than an issue.
And JAVA, dotNet, flash and so on in my view is a permanent remake of
base technology . . . .
I think better coding with Perl and solving problems - than spending
most of the time on getting into the latest language.
Greetings to all
Alexander
